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The Apriori algorithm principle says that if an itemset is frequent, then all of its subsets are frequent.this means that if {0,1} is frequent,
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The rule turned around says that if an itemset is infrequent, then its supersets are also infrequent.
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We rst need to nd the frequent itemsets, and then we can nd association rules.
Pros: Easy to code up
Cons: May be slow on large datasets
Works with: Numeric values, nominal values
Association analysis
Looking for hidden relationships in large datasets is known as association analysis or association rule learning. The problem is, nding
di erent combinations of items can be a time-consuming task and prohibitively expensive in terms of computing power.
These interesting relationships can take two forms: frequent item sets or association rules. Frequent item sets are a collection of items
that frequently occur together. The second way to view interesting relationships is association rules. Association rules suggest that a
strong relationship exists between two items.
With the frequent item sets and association rules, retailers have a much better understanding of their customers. Another example is
search terms from a search engine.
The support and con dence are ways we can quantify the success of our association analysis.
The support of an itemset is de ned as the percentage of the dataset that contains this itemset.
The con dence for a rule P ➞ H is de ned as support(P | H)/ support(P). Remember, in Python, the | symbol is the set union; the
mathematical symbol is U. P | H means all the items in set P or in set H.
General approach to the Apriori algorithm
1. Collect: Any method.

2. Prepare: Any data type will work as we’re storing sets.
3. Analyze: Any method.
4. Train: Use the Apriori algorithm to nd frequent itemsets.

5. Test: Doesn’t apply.
6. Use: This will be used to nd frequent itemsets and association rules between items.
Finding frequent itemsets
The way to nd frequent itemsets is the Apriori algorithm. The Apriori algorithm needs a minimum support level as an input and a data
set. The algorithm will generate a list of all candidate itemsets with one item. The transaction data set will then be scanned to see which
sets meet the minimum support level. Sets that don’t meet the minimum support level will get tossed out. The remaining sets will then be
combined to make itemsets with two elements. Again, the transaction dataset will be scanned and itemsets not meeting the minimum
support level will get tossed. This procedure will be repeated until all sets are tossed out.
Scanning the dataset
For each transaction in the dataset:
For each candidate itemset, can:

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If so increment the count of can
For each candidate itemset:
If the support meets the minimum, keep this item
Return list of frequent itemsets
In [1]:
from numpy import *
Create a simple dataset for testing
In [2]:
def loadDataSet():
return [[1, 3, 4], [2, 3, 5], [1, 2, 3, 5], [2, 5]]
It creates C1 .C1 is a candidate itemset of size one. In the Apriori algorithm, we create C1, and then we’ll scan the dataset to see if these one
itemsets meet our minimum support requirements. The itemsets that do meet our minimum requirements become L1. L1 then gets
combined to become C2 and C2 will get ltered to become L2.
Frozensets are sets that are frozen, which means they’re immutable; you can’t change them. You need to use the type frozenset instead of
set because you’ll later use these sets as the key in a dictionary.
You can’t create a set of just one integer in Python. It needs to be a list (try it out). That’s why you create a list of single-item lists. Finally,
you sort the list and then map every item in the list to frozenset() and return this list of frozensets
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def createC1(dataSet):
C1 = []
for transaction in dataSet:
for item in transaction:
if not [item] in C1:
C1.append([item])
C1.sort()
return list(map(frozenset, C1))#use frozen set so we
#can use it as a key in a dict
This function takes three arguments: a dataset, Ck, a list of candidate sets, and minSupport, which is the minimum support you’re
interested in. This is the function you’ll use to generate L1 from C1. Additionally, this function returns a dictionary with support values.
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def scanD(D, Ck, minSupport):

ssCnt = {}
for tid in D:
for can in Ck:
if can.issubset(tid):
if not can in ssCnt: ssCnt[can]=1
else: ssCnt[can] += 1
numItems
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for key in ssCnt:
support = ssCnt[key]/numItems
if support >= minSupport:
retList.insert(0,key)
supportData[key] = support
return retList, supportData
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dataSet = loadDataSet()
dataSet
Out[29]:
[[1, 3, 4], [2, 3, 5], [1, 2, 3, 5], [2, 5]]
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C1 = createC1(dataSet)
In [31]:
C1
Out[31]:
[frozenset({1}),
frozenset({2}),
frozenset({3}),
frozenset({4}),
frozenset({5})]
C1 contains a list of all the items in frozenset
In [32]:
#D is a dataset in the setform.
D = list(map(set,dataSet))
In [33]:
Out[33]:
[{1, 3, 4}, {2, 3, 5}, {1, 2, 3, 5}, {2, 5}]
Now that you have everything in set form, you can remove items that don’t meet our minimum support.
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Out[34]:
[frozenset({1}), frozenset({3}), frozenset({2}), frozenset({5})]
These four items make up our L1 list, that is, the list of one-item sets that occur in at least 50% of all transactions. Item 4 didn’t make the
minimum support level, so it’s not a part of L1. That’s OK. By removing it, you’ve removed more work from when you nd the list of two-
item sets.
Pseudo-code for the whole Apriori algorithm
While the number of items in the set is greater than 0:
Create a list of candidate itemsets of length k
Scan the dataset to see if each itemset is frequent
Keep frequent itemsets to create itemsets of length k+1
The main function is apriori(); it calls aprioriGen() to create candidate itemsets: Ck.
The function aprioriGen() will take a list of frequent itemsets, Lk, and the size of the itemsets, k, to produce Ck. For example, it will take
the itemsets {0}, {1}, {2} and so on and produce {0,1} {0,2}, and {1,2}.
The sets are combined using the set union, which is the | symbol in Python.
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def aprioriGen(Lk, k): #creates Ck

retList = []
lenLk = len(Lk)
for i in range(lenLk):
for j in range(i+1, lenLk):
L1 = list(Lk[i])[:k-2]; L2 = list(Lk[j])[:k-2]
L1.sort(); L2.sort()
if L1==L2: #if first k-2 elements are equal
retList.append(Lk[i] | Lk[j]) #set union
return retList
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def apriori(dataSet, minSupport = 0.5):

C1 = createC1(dataSet)
D = list(map(set, dataSet))
L1, supportData = scanD(D, C1, minSupport)
L = [L1]
k = 2
while (len(L[k-2]) > 0):
Ck = aprioriGen(L[k-2], k)
Lk, supK = scanD(D, Ck, minSupport)#scan DB to get Lk
supportData.update(supK)
L.append(Lk)
k += 1
return L, supportData
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L,suppData = apriori(dataSet)
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In [40]:
Out[40]:
[[frozenset({1}), frozenset({3}), frozenset({2}), frozenset({5})],

[frozenset({3, 5}), frozenset({1, 3}), frozenset({2, 5}), frozenset({2, 3})],
[frozenset({2, 3, 5})],
[]]
L contains some lists of frequent itemsets that met a minimum support of 0.5. The variable suppData is a dictionary with the support
values of our itemsets.
In [46]:
L[0]
Out[46]:
[frozenset({1}), frozenset({3}), frozenset({2}), frozenset({5})]
In [47]:
L[1]
Out[47]:
[frozenset({3, 5}), frozenset({1, 3}), frozenset({2, 5}), frozenset({2, 3})]
In [48]:
L[2]
Out[48]:
[frozenset({2, 3, 5})]
In [49]:
L[3]
Out[49]:
[]
In [50]:
aprioriGen(L[0],2)
Out[50]:
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[frozenset({1, 3}),
frozenset({1, 2}),
frozenset({1, 5}),
frozenset({2, 3}),
frozenset({3, 5}),
frozenset({2, 5})]
Mining association rules from frequent item sets
To nd association rules, we rst start with a frequent itemset. We know this set of items is unique, but we want to see if there is anything
else we can get out of these items. One item or one set of items can imply another item.
generateRules(), is the main command, which calls the other two.
The generateRules() function takes three inputs: a list of frequent itemsets, a dictionary of support data for those itemsets, and a
minimum con dence threshold. It’s going to generate a list of rules with con dence values that we can sort through later.
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def generateRules(L, supportData, minConf=0.7): #supportData is a dict coming from scanD

bigRuleList = []
for i in range(1, len(L)):#only get the sets with two or more items
for freqSet in L[i]:
H1 = [frozenset([item]) for item in freqSet]
if (i > 1):
rulesFromConseq(freqSet, H1, supportData, bigRuleList, minConf)
else:
calcConf(freqSet, H1, supportData, bigRuleList, minConf)
return bigRuleList
calcConf() calculates the con dence of the rule and then nd out the which rules meet the minimum con dence.
In [53]:
def calcConf(freqSet, H, supportData, brl, minConf=0.7):

prunedH = [] #create new list to return
for conseq in H:
conf = supportData[freqSet]/supportData[freqSet-conseq] #calc confidence
if conf >= minConf:
print (freqSet-conseq,'-->',conseq,'conf:',conf)
brl.append((freqSet-conseq, conseq, conf))
prunedH.append(conseq)
return prunedH
rulesFromConseq() generates more association rules from our initial dataset. This takes a frequent itemset and H, which is a list of items
that could be on the right-hand side of a rule.
In [54]:
def rulesFromConseq(freqSet, H, supportData, brl, minConf=0.7):

m = len(H[0])
if (len(freqSet) > (m + 1)): #try further merging
Hmp1 = aprioriGen(H, m+1)#create Hm+1 new candidates
Hmp1 = calcConf(freqSet, Hmp1, supportData, brl, minConf)
if (len(Hmp1) > 1): #need at least two sets to merge
rulesFromConseq(freqSet, Hmp1, supportData, brl, minConf)
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L,suppData= apriori(dataSet,minSupport=0.5)
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rules= generateRules(L,suppData, minConf=0.7)
frozenset({1}) --> frozenset({3}) conf: 1.0

This gives you three rules: {1} ➞ {3},{5} ➞ {2},and {2} ➞ {5}. It’s interesting to see that the rule with 2 and 5 can be ipped around but not
the rule with 1 and 3.
Finding similar features in poisonous mushrooms
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mushDatSet = [line.split() for line in open('mushroom.dat').readlines()]
In [71]:
L,suppData= apriori(mushDatSet, minSupport=0.3)
Search the frequent itemsets for the poisonous feature 2
In [73]:
for item in L[1]:

if item.intersection('2'):
print (item)
for item in L[1]:

print (item)
frozenset({'93', '2'})
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for item in L[6]:

print (item)
frozenset({'86', '39', '34', '23', '36', '2', '59'})

frozenset({'86', '53', '85', '28', '90', '2', '39'})
frozenset({'93', '86', '34', '23', '90', '59', '2'})
frozenset({'86', '85', '34', '90', '2', '39', '63'})
frozenset({'93', '85', '34', '23', '90', '59', '2'})
frozenset({'93', '86', '39', '23', '59', '2', '36'})
frozenset({'86', '85', '34', '23', '36', '2', '39'})
frozenset({'93', '86', '85', '34', '23', '59', '2'})
frozenset({'93', '86', '34', '23', '59', '2', '39'})
....
....
....
frozenset({'93', '86', '85', '34', '23', '90', '2'})

frozenset({'86', '34', '23', '36', '2', '59', '63'})
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rules= generateRules(L,suppData, minConf=0.7)
frozenset({'76'}) --> frozenset({'36'}) conf: 0.7135036496350365

.....
.....
.....
frozenset({'23', '85'}) --> frozenset({'86', '39', '34', '59', '2', '36', '63'}) conf: 0.7298578199052134
frozenset({'86', '23'}) --> frozenset({'85', '34', '59', '2', '39', '36', '63'}) conf: 0.7298578199052134
frozenset({'23'}) --> frozenset({'86', '85', '34', '59', '2', '39', '36', '63'}) conf: 0.7298578199052134
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HI,
I have a question and I hope you can help me.
I am working on an apriory algorithm for a large list of item.
My question is if I can save all the rules generated in the same le?
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In[28] y ssCnt is used, and y ssCnt[can] is assigned for 1
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hey can you tell me what L1=list([i])[:k-2] Is Doing
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Pros: Easy to code up

Cons: May be slow on large datasets

Works with: Numeric values, nominal values

General approach to the Apriori algorithm

1. Collect: Any method.

4. Train: Use the Apriori algorithm to nd frequent itemsets.

Finding frequent itemsets

Scanning the dataset

For each transaction in the dataset:

For each candidate itemset, can:

Check to see if can is a subset of tran Close and accept

For each candidate itemset:

If the support meets the minimum, keep this item

Return list of frequent itemsets

from numpy import *

Create a simple dataset for testing

def scanD(D, Ck, minSupport):

[[1, 3, 4], [2, 3, 5], [1, 2, 3, 5], [2, 5]]

C1 contains a list of all the items in frozenset

#D is a dataset in the setform.

[{1, 3, 4}, {2, 3, 5}, {1, 2, 3, 5}, {2, 5}]

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[frozenset({1}), frozenset({3}), frozenset({2}), frozenset({5})]

Pseudo-code for the whole Apriori algorithm

While the number of items in the set is greater than 0:

Create a list of candidate itemsets of length k

Scan the dataset to see if each itemset is frequent

Keep frequent itemsets to create itemsets of length k+1

def aprioriGen(Lk, k): #creates Ck

def apriori(dataSet, minSupport = 0.5):

[[frozenset({1}), frozenset({3}), frozenset({2}), frozenset({5})],

[frozenset({1}), frozenset({3}), frozenset({2}), frozenset({5})]

[frozenset({3, 5}), frozenset({1, 3}), frozenset({2, 5}), frozenset({2, 3})]

Mining association rules from frequent item sets

generateRules(), is the main command, which calls the other two.

def generateRules(L, supportData, minConf=0.7): #supportData is a dict coming from scanD

def calcConf(freqSet, H, supportData, brl, minConf=0.7):

def rulesFromConseq(freqSet, H, supportData, brl, minConf=0.7):

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rules= generateRules(L,suppData, minConf=0.7)

frozenset({1}) --> frozenset({3}) conf: 1.0

Finding similar features in poisonous mushrooms

mushDatSet = [line.split() for line in open('mushroom.dat').readlines()]

L,suppData= apriori(mushDatSet, minSupport=0.3)

Search the frequent itemsets for the poisonous feature 2

for item in L[1]:

for item in L[1]:

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for item in L[6]:

frozenset({'86', '39', '34', '23', '36', '2', '59'})